Bedfordshire Hostels
Potton
Bedfordshire Women's Land Army > Bedfordshire Hostels
Location: |
The Hollies, 12 King Street, Potton. OS Ref: TL22424930 |
Description: | 18th century town house, accommodating up to 20 Land Girls. |
Opened: | c. January 1943 |
Closed: | c. August 1948 |
![]() Potton hostel |
More information about this hostel
- Mrs. Stone was the first Warden of the Hostel. Nine of the first Land Girls came from Lincoln.
- In December 1944 The Land Girl magazine noted that the Potton Hostel had been commended for the potato picking done that season.
- By February 1946, the Warden was a Mrs. Kirton (plus a Mrs (?) Surtees assistant warden?)
- Audrey Favour, an ex-Forewoman at Potton Hostel, who had married an American soldier she had met locally, returned in 1948 to revisit the hostel land girls she had known.
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Land girls in the recreation room at The Holt, Potton
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Location of Potton hostel
OS 6" map Bedfordshire sheet XVIII NE (with additions in 1947/48)
More Pictures of Potton Land Girls
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Stuart Antrobus Historian/Author
Page last updated: 6th May 2015